INTIMATIONS
· ET. JOHN'S AMBULANCE BRIGADE
No. 1 HONGKONG V.A.D.
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Y examination on FT AID” will be held by Dr MACLE-Y GIBSON at the Helena May Institute on THURSDAY, feth instant at 10 am.
W. WILKINSON, '> Acting Adjutant & Honorary Secretary,
Bongkong, August 10, 1917.
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BRITISH TRADERS INSURANCE COMPANY LIMITED,
JESSKS, BUTTERFIELD) & SWIDE have This Day been appointi GENERAL AGENTS of the above Company for Fire Insurunet for Hong kong and China.
By Order of the Benyl of. Dievétnes,
C. H. P. HAY,
per pro Geners Manager,
Hongkong, August 8, 1917.
2017
THE HONGKONG ROPE MANU
FACTURING CO., LTD."
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of ONE A. DOLLAR (91,--), per share for necount 1917, will be payable on FRIDAY, the 24th Augest, foiz. Share- hollers are requested to apply for Dividend Warrants at the Company's Office. St George's
ge's Buildings, Hongkong.
The TRANSFER BOOKS if the Company will be CLOSED fron MONDAY, the 29th. August, 1017, bo FRIDAY, 24th August, 197, both days inclusiye,
SHEWAN, TOMES & CO
Gennal "ManageTA.
Hangkong, August 10, 1917. 2020
HONGKONG ICE CO., LTD:
NOTICE.
IN ACCORDANCE with the Provisions of No. 11 of the Articles of Associa tion the General Managers have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half year ended 30th June 1917, of TWO DOLLARS PER SHARE
DIVIDEND WARRANTS maybe ahrained on..
at the Office of the Company on and after TUESDAY, list instant.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 10th to 20th instant," BOTH DAYS inclusive..
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.,
General ManageTA, Hongkong, August 10, 1917.
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HE HONGKONG STEEL FOUNDRY CO., LTD."
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
THE
SEVENTH ORDINARY YEARLY MEETING of SHARE- HOLDERS in the above Company, will be held at the Company's Office Sr. GEORGE'S BUILDIss, Hongkong, on WEDNESDAY, August 15th, 1917 at 11 30.3. for the purpose of presenting the Repert of the General Managers, and d Statement of Accounts to May Bist, 1017.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Compuby will be CLOSED from
nclusive.
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FUTURE OF FARMING
GREAT BRITAIN.
LORD SELBORNE ON A NEW
"POLICY.
NO FINAL ANSWER TO SUBMARINES.
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BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., Ltd,
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INunications on daything like the scale THE BAN THAT GERMANY FEARS.
August 6th to 16th, 1917, both day's Lord Selborne spoke on agricultural GORDON & CO. . | policy at a'meeting of the Farmers? Club, Lord Selberne said that for many years the nation, had neglected agriculture, and the consumer to-day was only lying
General Managers...
Hongkong, August & 1917. 2013
·
UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG.
MATRICULATION, SENIOR AND UNIOR LOCAL EXAMINATIONS, THESE
men.ca
the bed he had made for himself. It was
these
EXCLUSION FROM, BRITISH MARKETS.
Frankfurter Zeitung
m true that farmers had been foreing battle in the same way as they had done ring filed to achieve the
up prices or hoarding or wishholding supplies. The prices-which they had been receiving were good prices, but they SE EXAMINATIONS will com had to be measured by the greatly
on MONDAY, December 10th, 1917.
increased cost of production." What had rangements will be made to hold ruled thone prices had not been the eat. the Examinations at any town where &lations of the firitish farmer; but that sutficient number of Candidates offer themselves. Candidates who wish to world price in which the consumer had le exsmined at any other place than he
or Shanghai must apply to reisiced all these years. If the lessons Br before September of the war were thrown away he would
Hoor on
the
be
TH
:
Cheers.
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COMPULSION NEEDED.
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While recognizing that the question of England now succeeds 13
helping the fariner in the matter of credit
will
one
For
on which we had conducted them in this war. Neither, in his opinion, would our Pommunications he completely cut off as the terpa contannications had been in that,
The following is & summary of an this war. The net result was
article which appeared in the Rheinisch whereas we should be able in a future war Westfalische Zeitung, which is the most to import" some food, we should zot be violently anti-American of the big in- able in carry on the volume of trade article lies in the fact that it
dustrial papers. The interest of this | Food curried on in this war, and we myst
shows that the be dependent on food grown in
scare regarding Gerinan after-war trade, which started in the islands for the main sustenane of our
press (ie. the
the population. If the nation adopted
and the
stionist wisely conceived policy it would be the ger), is now spreading in anners duty of all connected with the lead to try industrial Socialist ranks. It looks as if there were now a deliberate intention to give effect to it. If the nation of preparing the German nation for a deliberately refused to change is agricul. surrender of every kind of political claim tural policy no one could blame the farmer if only peace can be signed of status or landowner il they fought their own ) 100;
trade conditions.
defeat of Germany, and there. during the last 60 years, Above all things by eliminate us from the
the world markets, what they wanted, was stability and does not despair of achieving this end by therefore, sum today if it was to be abandoned a year security. It was oo good starting a policy other means. She has, therefor
moned an
an Imperial Conference in Lon or two hence. Unless the math would all
with the German
objecte
of contracting an British
Custom anti
Uniqn adopt a new policy, and stick to it. he, with the t Colonies When the prayed they would leave agriculture alone. Conference took place we did ant think much could come of it, or account of the many rival interests concerned, which seemed to make united action impossible. IÉTM
an Imperial Custom
Union us, the matter becomes of was of great importance, he did that. extreme gravity for
for" Germany. of entry
and all particulars can look to the future history of his-country- though it had been part of his duty to thereby & uniformly directed, economic obtained on application to the with little less than dismay
which study the problem he did not pretend to hegemony
be created, whi Registr
University, The
Hongkong. entry form, daly filed in, mest He didnt believe any complete and have solved it. All the foreigs systems account of its weight, will draw into its orbit a number of f smaller States, whose reach the
together with the permanent answer would ever be found had been devised to meet the tonditions b
resources will be used to a common end. fee (Ten
Dolla Hongkong Currency) to the submarine menace. Great develop country would have to spend a great deal motion in-the interest-of-Great-Britain, different from the Abtaining lure. The And this enormous weight will be set in on or before October 2nd, 1917.
Four Cash Prizes will be awarded on tents would take place both in the more agrifultural education and wall
and will be intensified a thousandfold if the resuits of the Matriculation Exami methods of dealing with the submarine especially on reséurch.
America throws in ther
weight,
deciding natio provided that Candidates" of
and in the construction and power of the
to join hands with the Old merit ofter themselves.
Country for Referring to the recommenditions in the defeat of the common enemy. Candidates
cash prizes subraazine, and there would be a constant the reports be said that if the State
there are strong in- fluences..
already at work both on this must enter the University on January struggle between submarine attack and required the maximum of food production 2nd, 1818, and must reside in one of the hostels directly manager by the auti-submarins defence, at once time the premier be an element of compusion ad the other side of the Atlantic seek- ing to find a common basis for Anglo- Unive
niversity.
one predominating and at another time farmer. The men who were to decide allow oneself to be led astray by
in the background, both for landlord and Saxon world domination. One must not The Examinations will be conducted according to the "Regulations for the
If such a war os this took whether 31 estate was being badly pose of such American statesmen as Senior and Junior Local Examinatins place again and we had not very largely managed were to be, strictly practical Wilson and his friends who used to and for the Matricalation Examination, increased our home production of food, he men, there was no officialdom about them pr to of pesce, Int
but did not hesitate to 1917"
ust off the mark of their hypocrisy when believed we should be defeated before the in the ordinary sense of the word. The they saw the British Lion beginning to Hongkong, August 9, 1917.
war began, because wo should be starved taking over of the management chan estate fall. Those honest gentlemen will not into submission. No he foresaw the by the Board of Agriculture did sot mean hesitate to entered to delest Germany's
common SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION future, we should never again be-able-in that the estate would be managed by a world supremacy in trade if their com
a great war to conduct our een com clerk sitting in London, but by a man of
mercial instinct proved competency to manage an estate advantage so doing. The ideal of In the county in question. The Com-rca is far deeper rooted
world supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon the Yanken mittee did not believe that land courts soul than any mere ides of that worlds were in the interest of agriculture they peace over which they used to rave.
Now that the florman Army" has so represented dual ownership, which had been shown to be an impossible system, triumphantly withstood the attacks of and the landlord would he detered from all the world in the Belo
world in the field of battle, it putting his carital into permanent ability of
to do as much improvement of the load. Wherever, in another sphere. however, the opportunity occurred and a
however, we shall find ourselves farmer was able to undertako the obliga facts, and only gradually shall we be able pear future faced with most disagréesble tions of ownership the State should come to regain our pre-war peition in the forward to make that stop easier for him world's market. The conditions of pes That was a sound and truly progressive will offer us our first opportunity in this national policy.
respect. Unless, however, we succeed in extorting from England sbsolutely hir. B. G. Paterac, who incraded the unrestricted" most-favoured nation motion, said he had not thought if treatment for German goods in the possible thas any individual could do so Motherland, as well as in her Dominions much to destroy the confidenes of the and Colonies we shall see our hands forcibly tied in other directions by, those
secure
2009
of the PAPER PULF MILL. Bituated at VIETRY, (TONKIN). THIS MILL in built upon a property Measuring 144,000 sq. footers, and consists of the following buildings and machinery :-
1. EIGHT brick-buildings, with iron pillary and beam. Corrugated iron roofs. Two sheds with corrugated iron 2005,
ka
PLANT & MACHINERY of the kind required for making-Paper pulp.
a. TWO European residences.
The above Property will be sold by Public Auction at PHE-THO (Tonkin),
on
the lat day of September, 1917, RESERVE PRICE $100,000, Flundred, Thousand Dollars Indo-China Currency
(One
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British farmer in the justice and honesty who take their political commercial cue
of the Government as Lord Devosport had from har so that our foreign trade will' dove. His poter had brem denstions, inevitably--lag felind-that of thows It did not inspire them with conficaco tod
Powers, who are even now preparing, by the drawing closer the bonds - that mito see a man who had been a failure hone you
them to
conquer us in the coming trade oured for his failure,
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